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Makdissi, Paul - 2009

"Under price ceilings and quality floors for agricultural inputs in cash crop sectors in developing countries where credit markets are weak, imperfect information on the ability of farmers to pay for their inputs at the end of the cropping season may lead the decentralized production of those...

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Integrating Climate Change into Road Asset Management

Henning, Theuns Frederick Phillip - 2017

There is a wealth of scientific reports that records the actual climatic changes that have been taking place during recent years. While there is debate over the causes of climate change, the rate at which this phenomenon is increasing is overwhelming - with the evidence indicating that the...

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Loss aversion and trade policy

Freund, Caroline L. - 2004

"Freund and Ozden provide new survey evidence showing that loss aversion and reference dependence are important in shaping people's perception of trade policy. Under the assumption that agents' welfare functions exhibit these behavioral elements, they analyze a model with a welfare-maximizing...

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The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem

Didier, Tatiana - 2009

. These decisions can be decomposed into a portfolio rebalancing and a portfolio growth component. This paper provides … empirical evidence of the importance of portfolio rebalancing for the dynamics of the current account. The authors evaluate the … predictions of a partial-equilibrium model of the current account with dynamic portfolio choices, in which portfolio rebalancing …

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Country portfolios

Ventura, Jaume (contributor) - 2004

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An alternative unifying measure of welfare gains from risk-sharing

Auffret, Philippe - 2001

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Immunization

World Bank - 2012

Immunization deserves high priority, especially in developing countries, for three reasons: vaccine-preventable diseases, disproportionately affect the poorest fifth of the population; immunization is among the most cost-effective interventions, and has a major impact in reducing the burden of...

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Innovation and export portfolios

Klinger, Bailey - 2006

"This paper examines the link between sectoral concentration and overall performance in the search for on-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the types of search processes considered, and by...

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Housekeeping and plumbing : the investability of emerging markets

Zervos, Sara - 2003

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Do capital flows respond to risk and return?

Calderán, César - 2003

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